1913Una moves to Berkeley for graduate work in education
Marriage to Una Call Kustler, August 2 at Tacoma, Washington
Rent a house in La Jolla

1914LaJolla
They plan living in Lyme Regis on south coast of England
Daughter Maev born 5 May and dies the next day
September: moves to Carmel, California
Father dies December 20
Leaves annuity for $200/month; has $1,000 from John Robinson, his
namesake

1916War years terrible
9 November twins born, Donnan and Garth
Macmillan published his "Californians"

1918They rent a log cabin
Drive old Ford
Much reading, few friends

1919Buy land for Tor House on Mission Point, Carmel
Start construction August 15

1921Begins Hawk Tower
Una in hospital
Death of mother

1922Una's hysterectomy
Una sends RJ's poems to New York through a friend
George Sterling friendship begins
Writes "Tamar" as Eliot publishes "The Waste
Land"

1930First summer at Taos, New Mexico, with Mabel Dodge
Luhan. Summer trips follow in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1938.
Children in 7th grade at Sunset school

1931Expand house with dining room between house and garage
Publication of Descent to the Dead, his Irish poems by
Random House

1932"The Tower Beyond Tragedy" staged at Berkeley
Demand for poems in magazines
Time magazine features Jeffers' portrait on its cover 4 April for
Thurso's Landing and Other Poems (Liveright)
S.S. Alberts A Bibliography of the Works of Robinson Jeffers
at Random House
Lawrence Clark Powell publishes first doctoral dissertation on
Jeffers at Dijon
Mabel Luhan publishes her Lorenzo in Taos at Alfred
Knopf as a letter to Robinson Jeffers explaining her experience
of D.H. Lawrence

1933
Change of publishers from Liveright to Random House Give Your Heart to the Hawks and Other Poems (Randon
House)

1934
RJ 47, Una 48, twins 18
Trip to New Mexico and Grand Canyon

1935Donnan and Garth at Salinas Junior college
Una has operation
Random House issues Solstice and Other Poems

1936Twins at International House, UC Berkeley
Book of the Month Club Award fro Solstice and Other Poems
Taos in June

1937Awarded Doctor of Literature by Occidental College
Trip to Ireland (June-October)
National Institute of Arts and Letters elects Jeffers to
membershipSuch Counsels You Gave to Me and Other Poems (Random
House)

1938Brother Hamilton flies Jeffers in Stearman
biplane to Death Valley
Taos catastrophe: Una's attempted suicide
December publication of The Selected Poetry by Random
House

1956
The Book Club of California publishes Themes in My Poems
from his 1941 lecture at the Library of Congress
Last trip to Ireland The Loving Shepherdess published by Merle Armitage and
Ward Ritchie Press illustrated by Jean Kellogg

1958 Receives award from Academy of American Poets

1961Shelly Memorial Award by the National Poetry Society

1962
Jeffers dies (age 75) in his sleep in the bed by the window at
Tor House

Consult the
Jeffers Studies web
site for continuation of the chronology
to the present. The Jeffers Studies page of the World Wide Web
[www.jeffers.org] offers a rich menu: (1) current JS articles
published electronically and anticipating inclusion in the JS
annual issue, (2) an archive of JS past issue articles, (3) JS
reviews, (4) a bibliography of works by Jeffers, (5) a
bibliography of biographic and critical works on the poet, (6) a
Jeffers chronology, (7) a biographic sketch, (8) an ongoing year
by year bibliography of pertinent articles, chapters, and books,
(9) links to cognate Web sites, including the entire 1353 pages
of A Literary History of the American West (Fort Worth: Texas
Christian U P, 1987) which, under Part 2: Many
WestsFar West, has an 18 page chapter on Jeffers, and
(10) the 60-page index to issues 1-100 (1962-1996) of the
Robinson Jeffers Newsletter, the previous Journal of
Record for Jeffers studies. The Web Site also features a
Web page on the Robinson Jeffers Association, RJAs call for
papers, an archive of past RJA conferences, announcements of
activity such as the annual essay contest, and a forum for
discussion. Upon its appearance in Jeffers Studies 3.3 (in June
2000) a 50-year, 70-page Jeffers bibliography, 1950-1999, will
also be available there.